Originally Posted by
biggestbopper
Years ago I saw a letter in one of the English language papers from a foreigner who had come to BKK for eye surgery and said he had been blinded by the very high society Thai eye doc he went to after much research.
When he looked into legal compensation he was basically laughed at. Farang against Thai-you can't win.
That story made me very wary about getting serious eye surgery in Thailand or elsewhere a long, long way from home.
Yes, but monetary compensation won't bring your eyesight back.
I've been in the eye business for 20 years, pretty much all of it at a teaching institution (no, not a doctor) and we see all the procedures that went wrong, because the doc who did the surgery doesn't want to deal with trying to fix it, because there's no money in that and it can be very time consuming.
So yes, it can -and does - happen in US as well. And in essence, if you have good measurements, it's an almost automatic procedure, very little for the doctor to do, it's mostly done by the machine.
But despite having access to discounted rate, I still wear glasses
My colleague OTOH had it done (with discount) a couple of years ago.
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